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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wag  \Wag\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Wagged};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Wagging}.]  [OE.  waggen;  probably  of  Scand.  origin;  cf  Sw 
  vagga  to  rock  a  cradle,  vagga  cradle,  Icel.  vagga,  Dan. 
  vugge;  akin  to  AS  wagian  to  move  wag,  wegan  to  bear,  carry, 
  G.  &  D.  bewegen  to  move  and  E.  weigh.  [root]136.  See 
  {Weigh}.] 
  To  move  one  way  and  the  other  with  quick  turns;  to  shake  to 
  and  fro;  to  move  vibratingly  to  cause  to  vibrate,  as  a  part 
  of  the  body;  as  to  wag  the  head. 
 
  No  discerner  durst  wag  his  tongue  in  censure.  --Shak. 
 
  Every  one  that  passeth  thereby  shall  be  astonished,  and 
  wag  his  head.  --Jer.  xviii. 
  16. 
 
  Note:  Wag  expresses  specifically  the  motion  of  the  head  and 
  body  used  in  buffoonery,  mirth,  derision,  sport,  and 
  mockery.




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